Motivational Quotes

Opinions

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Opinions

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?